On Improving the Management of Railway Transport

Draft Decision for the Council of People’s Commissars[1]

Written:December 2, 1919Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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TheC.P.C. directs the Commissariat for Railways to draw up
within a week a detailed decree (or instructions) concerning the
participation of workers and workers’ organisations, especially the trade
unions, in the management of the railways, in training workers for
management, etc.

[1]Thedraft decree on improving railway transport in connection with
military freightages was discussed at a meeting of the C.P.C. on December
2, 1919. During this discussion Lenin introduced his motion, which was
incorporated in § 10 of the decree. With this addendum and other
amendments the decree was adopted by the C.P.C. and published in part inIzvestiaNo. 281 for December 14, 1919.